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The proposal by mining company Vedanta Resources to establish a bauxite mine on sacred indigenous land in India’s Orissa state has been rejected by the Indian Government.
The Dongria Kondh tribe live harmoniously with nature and are ecologically dependent on the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, where Vedanta – an Indian and British firm – have been [...]
Mining giant Vedanta Resources will be having its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday in London, where the company is headquartered. But this year, shareholders will be met by a well-publicized protest.
Activist groups including Amnesty International have consistently criticized Vedanta for human rights violations and poor environmental practices, particularly in the Indian state of Orissa.
From an [...]
Survivors of the horrific chemical disaster that took place over 25 years ago in Bhopal, India are not satisfied with the recent actions of the Indian government regarding their case.
The poison gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant is considered the worst industrial disaster in history, resulting in many thousands of deaths as well [...]
India’s Minister of State for Environmental and Forest, Jairam Ramesh, recently announced plans to launch 2 satellites that will be specifically used to monitor environmental changes in the country.
The first satellite, which will be launched in 2012, will monitor daily carbon emissions; while the second satellite will monitor India’s forest cover—also on a daily basis. [...]
A 7.5 earthquake struck near India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands early yesterday morning.
Although tsunami warnings were issued, they have been withdrawn since. Power went out in some areas and tremors from the quake were also felt on India, which was more than 600 miles (1,000 km) from the epicenter.
The good news is there [...]
Over 25 years have past since the worst chemical disaster in history took place at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. The catastrophe killed 15,000 according to Indian government estimates. Activists and locals put the death toll much higher, not to mention the thousands left disabled by the disaster.
Today, a court in Bhopal [...]
Northern India has been suffering from record high temperatures in a deadly heatwave that hundreds have perished in. Temperatures reached 48.5C (119F) in Gujarat state several days ago, but the worst may still be to come with forecasts nearing 50C (122F) for the weeks to come.
Many people have been hospitalized, bodies of water have dried [...]
An 83-year old Indian man named Prahlad Jani claims to have not eaten or drunk anything in 70 years. Not bloody likely, I hear you say, but what if it’s true?
Not eating or drinking could be a great solution to pesky human disasters like food and water shortages: Starving? Dying of thirst? Just don’t do [...]
Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a United Nations study on how to improve sanitation levels globally.
–Al Jazeera English
Development and economic growth are huge priorities for India’s government, but according to an Al Jazeera English report, only one third of India’s nearly 1.2 billion [...]
REVA Electric Car Company is an Indian carmaker which makes small electric vehicles sold in 24 countries across Europe and Asia. Reva plans on increasing their meager 3,000 total cars sold to a target of 30,000 per year.
Less expensive and more compact than the Nissan Leaf plug-in vehicle, Reva’s fully electric NXR has a similar [...]
A tornado that ripped through part of India last week killed at least 131 people and made any attempt of aid a real trying task.
Aid and rescue workers had to make their way through uprooted trees and downed power lines blocking roads to provide food and shelter to the hundreds of thousands of victims left [...]
Earlier this week, India announced plans to use a new tiger tracking system in order to crack down on “lazy” wildlife guards.
Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, explained that when it comes to patrolling wildlife sanctuary areas, “many field officers are too lazy”. He also adds that “they make up data instead of surveying the field”. [...]
A rare event happened in India yesterday. A tornado—with winds in excess of 100 mph (160 kph)—tore through the northeastern part of the country, injuring hundreds and leaving thousands homeless. At least 119 people were killed during the storm.
Rescue workers have been busy distributing rice, dried fruit, and water to the cyclone victims. Tarpaulins were [...]
India is a country of over one billion inhabitants and already the fourth largest emitter of CO2. While India’s per capita emissions are still low, the South Asian powerhouse has a projected annual economic growth rate of 8-9%. This means a growing middle class and a concomitant demand for the hallmarks of affluent society, such [...]
Beginning on Monday night, some 20,000 endangered Olive Ridley turtles stormed a beach in the Indian state of Orissa to lay their eggs. This year’s nesting began nearly a month later than last year, but this is not unusual, says a report in the Times of India.
Unusual or not, late nesting means more eggs will [...]
Rural India does not have much infrastructure or development, but it does have plenty of sun.
450 million people in India live without electricity, many in places with no connection to any power grid. Therefore inexpensive photovoltaic solar panels offer a practical solution for those who live off grid and have little money.
Independent solar power can [...]
In some Asian countries clean water is an increasingly scarce and politically charged resource – and climate change will only make things worse.
Pakistan and India, both reliant on the shared waters of Indus River for irrigation and hydroelectric power, face problems including floods, water shortages, chronically high levels of unsafe drinking water as well as [...]
Vedanta Resources plc, an India-based mining firm, has been the subject of much criticism from the press and activist groups – including Amnesty International and Survival International – due to questionable human rights and environmental practices. In October 2008, The Ecologist reported that the partly British-owned company was to establish a bauxite mine on a [...]
Dozens of giant underground coal fires have been burning in the Indian state of Jharkhand for almost 100 years, according to a BBC News report. Attempts at extinguishing the fires have so far been unsuccessful. Now, the Indian government wants to move in and put out the fires with water and chemicals, and subsequently remove [...]
In India, many factory workers heavily depend on coal power – which can be very environmentally harmful – to make ends meet.
– Al Jazeera English
Glass factories in Northern India provide the South Asian country’s poor with important jobs, yet the furnaces used in glass production are coal powered. Al Jazeera English reports on India’s carbon [...]
Statements made by China’s most senior climate change negotiator at a meeting of major developing nations in New Delhi on Sunday harkened back to George W. Bush’s erstwhile position that – in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence – global warming needed ‘more study’. Climate change special representative Xie Zhenhua, while maintaining that there is [...]
‘The Sundarbans, a network of islands that spans the mouth of the Ganges delta from eastern India to Bangladesh, are sinking rapidly. The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal that support a unique mangrove ecosystem are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the lives and livelihoods of more than 4 [...]
The major developing nations of China, India, Brazil and South Africa will meet on January 24th in New Delhi to hash out a common position on emission reductions and climate aid. It is believed that once such an agreement is reached the block of powerful developing countries will then attempt to convince other nations to [...]
Death, birth defects, contaminated soil and water as well as skin, vision and breathing diseases, are some of the effects that linger in the Indian city of Bhopal some 25 years after a massive poison gas leak. On December 3rd, 1984, the worst chemical disaster in history took place in this central Indian city, causing [...]
Defra, the U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, runs a number of campaigns and projects around themes of environmental responsibility sustainable development. Here are two videos produced by Defra: The first is a very slick production about a Defra project in cooperation with the Indian government concerning India’s textile industry. Termed the U.K. [...]
***UPDATE – ‘Four days ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit, India on Thursday announced it will reduce its emission intensity by 20-25% by 2020′ (source: The Times of India)
India is the world’s fourth highest emitter of greenhouse gasses and is poised to move up in those rankings as it further develops and industrializes. According [...]
Villagers in Rajasthan, India are using traditional techniques of rain harvesting to replenish local water supplies. From CNN’s video series ‘Going Green: Eco Pioneers’, this report features Rajendra Singh, aka the Rainman of Rajasthan, who works with water conservation in the largest, but driest state in India.
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While writing about Colony Collapse Disorder (the disappearance of the world’s honeybee population) I came across an article by Canadian investigative journalist Alex Roslin about monocrops and their detrimental effects on world hunger, biodiversity, nutrition, food supplies, water toxicity and soil quality. A sweeping change from traditional farming, with its fallow fields, crop rotation and [...]
